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094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification, with Elishia Dvorak
Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
What is the CF Specialist Certification?
1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training).
This must be completed prior to the hands on class
You can ask questions of the Adobe experts during this time
2. a full-day hands on class taught by top Adobe ColdFusion experts.
Instructor plus TAs
3. Multiple-choice assessment
4. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate.
And LinkedIn badge to help you stand out from the crowd
Cost
$399 including the video training, hands-on class and assessment
Why Certify
See where your skills are compared to other CFers
Learn new features that you might have missed
Improve chances of promotion or being hired
How is this different from the old certification program?
The old one was CF 9
Only a test - did not include any training
The new one is video training and 1-day training with Q&A plus a test
1-day training
Small classroom format
1 instructor + 2 TAs
Requirements
Bring a modern laptop with CF 2018 and CF Builder 2018 already installed on it
Install help provided
Why did you decide to bring it back?
It has been 10 years
Developers, managers and organization for both certification and training from Adobe
Future - other topics such as CF Security (by Pete Freitag)
What does it cover?
All versions of CF
CF 2018 is best
Fundaments
Modern CFML coding best practices
It includes all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug and deploy web apps.
It also shows how CF acts as a glue between different systems.
Does not be cover non-language features such as the API Manager or Clustering..
Course Outline
Introduction to ColdFusion
Basics of HTML (Static Vs Dynamic sites)
What is ColdFusion and CF Builder?
ColdFusion Installation
Dynamic generation of Pages using CFML (Hello World)
ColdFusion Administrator
ColdFusion Datasources
Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
ColdFusion Builder Primer
Debugging applications
Advanced features
ColdFusion Fundamentals
Commenting code
Conditional statements
Reusing code with
Reusing code with Custom Tags and CFModule
Writing and Using CFFunctions
Working with forms
Working with forms – best practices
Database Operations
Displaying database data – cfoutput and cfloop
Introducing CurrentRow
Using the Resultset data – current row, record count, cache, column list, valuelist()
Using URL data in dynamic queries
Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria
Query parameters and caching
Variable and Data Types
Working with lists
Working with arrays
Working with structures
Looping over data
Shared Scopes and Handling State
Addressing the web’s statelessness
Session and Application Variables
Locking shared scope variables
Application Framework
Using the application framework
Configuring application settings
Handling application events
Handling request events
Handling session events
OnServerStart()
applicationStop()
PDF Operations in CF
Installing HTML to PDF Engine
Creating PDFs with
HTML to PDF Conversion with
Introduction to DDX support
Object-Oriented ColdFusion
Instance-based components
Caching instances
Adding methods to a component
Public and Private
Property getters and setters
Constructors
Inheritance
Composition
Interfaces
Models
When
Sign up now
Video release mid-Sept
On site class Monday Sept 30th
Availability
120 seats
Where
Mirage Las Vegas
Why Las Vegas?
Easy travel
Cheap flights to LAS airport
Airport in right in town only a few miles from the conference hotel
CF Summit
West
East
India
CF cert level
beginner/intermediate level
Learn CF in a Week
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
Engage
Blog
Social post
Share your CF app story with Adobe
SaaS app
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West?
Mentioned in this episode
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/adobe-coldfusion-specialist/
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/07/adobe-coldfusion-specialist-certificate-program/
https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Learn CF in a Week site and episode
Listen to the Audio
Bio
Elishia Dvorak
Elishia Dvorak is the Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion and e-learning products. She started out as a CF developer.
Links
CF Summit
Questions cfsummit (at) adobe.com
Linked In
Twitter @elishdvorak/
Adobe blogs
Elishia (at) adobe.com
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:02
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Alicia the divorce. God, am I saying your name wrong? That sounds like you're in the that grade that crazy keyboard that people use. But I know that's not you could have been though.
Elishia Dworak 0:16
No, but it's the same name. And actually, it's pronounced Dworzhack. But I don't do that because I'm from California, we make up our own names for everything.
Michaela Light 0:25
Oh, how do you pronounce it? Okay, same name different pronunciation. And if you don't know us, she is the Adobe e Technical Marketing Manager and knows all kinds of details about ColdFusion, and E learning products that come out of Adobe. And she actually started as a ColdFusion developer many years ago. So you may have seen her at CF summit on stage talking about the API manager or the the performance tuning monitor that just came out in ColdFusion 2018. So very famous person well in the ColdFusion world. But today, we're going to be talking about something new, which is the ColdFusion Specialist certification that is releasing at CF summit in October this year in Las Vegas. So maybe we better start off by asking what exactly is this certification?
Elishia Dworak 1:23
Thank you for asking. So the specialist certificate, it's a certificate program that will hopefully be the first of more to come. But this will be basically combined training with about I would say somewhere around 22 to 25 hours of video content, training you on the basics of ColdFusion development practices. So we'll follow best practices will ensure that we're giving you security hints and tips along the way. But you the courses actually designed for you to consume the video content ahead of time. And then come on site with us for a whole day of review and questions and answers and additional training on site. And the instructor will go over all of these different concepts and ensure that you have thorough knowledge of all of them. Before you take about I would say a quiz that's at the end, I would say it would be about an like 45 minute quiz at the end to get your certificate. And that will be a certificate of completion from Adobe, which will have badges associated with it that you can put on linked in for job searching and things like that. And of course, will print up a certificate for you as well. So it's really exciting, because it's the first of its kind actually.
Read more
Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.
Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.
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Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
What is the CF Specialist Certification?
1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training).
This must be completed prior to the hands on class
You can ask questions of the Adobe experts during this time
2. a full-day hands on class taught by top Adobe ColdFusion experts.
Instructor plus TAs
3. Multiple-choice assessment
4. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate.
And LinkedIn badge to help you stand out from the crowd
Cost
$399 including the video training, hands-on class and assessment
Why Certify
See where your skills are compared to other CFers
Learn new features that you might have missed
Improve chances of promotion or being hired
How is this different from the old certification program?
The old one was CF 9
Only a test - did not include any training
The new one is video training and 1-day training with Q&A plus a test
1-day training
Small classroom format
1 instructor + 2 TAs
Requirements
Bring a modern laptop with CF 2018 and CF Builder 2018 already installed on it
Install help provided
Why did you decide to bring it back?
It has been 10 years
Developers, managers and organization for both certification and training from Adobe
Future - other topics such as CF Security (by Pete Freitag)
What does it cover?
All versions of CF
CF 2018 is best
Fundaments
Modern CFML coding best practices
It includes all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug and deploy web apps.
It also shows how CF acts as a glue between different systems.
Does not be cover non-language features such as the API Manager or Clustering..
Course Outline
Introduction to ColdFusion
Basics of HTML (Static Vs Dynamic sites)
What is ColdFusion and CF Builder?
ColdFusion Installation
Dynamic generation of Pages using CFML (Hello World)
ColdFusion Administrator
ColdFusion Datasources
Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
ColdFusion Builder Primer
Debugging applications
Advanced features
ColdFusion Fundamentals
Commenting code
Conditional statements
Reusing code with
Reusing code with Custom Tags and CFModule
Writing and Using CFFunctions
Working with forms
Working with forms – best practices
Database Operations
Displaying database data – cfoutput and cfloop
Introducing CurrentRow
Using the Resultset data – current row, record count, cache, column list, valuelist()
Using URL data in dynamic queries
Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria
Query parameters and caching
Variable and Data Types
Working with lists
Working with arrays
Working with structures
Looping over data
Shared Scopes and Handling State
Addressing the web’s statelessness
Session and Application Variables
Locking shared scope variables
Application Framework
Using the application framework
Configuring application settings
Handling application events
Handling request events
Handling session events
OnServerStart()
applicationStop()
PDF Operations in CF
Installing HTML to PDF Engine
Creating PDFs with
HTML to PDF Conversion with
Introduction to DDX support
Object-Oriented ColdFusion
Instance-based components
Caching instances
Adding methods to a component
Public and Private
Property getters and setters
Constructors
Inheritance
Composition
Interfaces
Models
When
Sign up now
Video release mid-Sept
On site class Monday Sept 30th
Availability
120 seats
Where
Mirage Las Vegas
Why Las Vegas?
Easy travel
Cheap flights to LAS airport
Airport in right in town only a few miles from the conference hotel
CF Summit
West
East
India
CF cert level
beginner/intermediate level
Learn CF in a Week
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
Engage
Blog
Social post
Share your CF app story with Adobe
SaaS app
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West?
Mentioned in this episode
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/adobe-coldfusion-specialist/
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/07/adobe-coldfusion-specialist-certificate-program/
https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Learn CF in a Week site and episode
Listen to the Audio
Bio
Elishia Dvorak
Elishia Dvorak is the Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion and e-learning products. She started out as a CF developer.
Links
CF Summit
Questions cfsummit (at) adobe.com
Linked In
Twitter @elishdvorak/
Adobe blogs
Elishia (at) adobe.com
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:02
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Alicia the divorce. God, am I saying your name wrong? That sounds like you're in the that grade that crazy keyboard that people use. But I know that's not you could have been though.
Elishia Dworak 0:16
No, but it's the same name. And actually, it's pronounced Dworzhack. But I don't do that because I'm from California, we make up our own names for everything.
Michaela Light 0:25
Oh, how do you pronounce it? Okay, same name different pronunciation. And if you don't know us, she is the Adobe e Technical Marketing Manager and knows all kinds of details about ColdFusion, and E learning products that come out of Adobe. And she actually started as a ColdFusion developer many years ago. So you may have seen her at CF summit on stage talking about the API manager or the the performance tuning monitor that just came out in ColdFusion 2018. So very famous person well in the ColdFusion world. But today, we're going to be talking about something new, which is the ColdFusion Specialist certification that is releasing at CF summit in October this year in Las Vegas. So maybe we better start off by asking what exactly is this certification?
Elishia Dworak 1:23
Thank you for asking. So the specialist certificate, it's a certificate program that will hopefully be the first of more to come. But this will be basically combined training with about I would say somewhere around 22 to 25 hours of video content, training you on the basics of ColdFusion development practices. So we'll follow best practices will ensure that we're giving you security hints and tips along the way. But you the courses actually designed for you to consume the video content ahead of time. And then come on site with us for a whole day of review and questions and answers and additional training on site. And the instructor will go over all of these different concepts and ensure that you have thorough knowledge of all of them. Before you take about I would say a quiz that's at the end, I would say it would be about an like 45 minute quiz at the end to get your certificate. And that will be a certificate of completion from Adobe, which will have badges associated with it that you can put on linked in for job searching and things like that. And of course, will print up a certificate for you as well. So it's really exciting, because it's the first of its kind actually.
Read more
Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.
Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.